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Jane Lathrop Stanford 



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THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR 
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Jane Lathrop Stanford 



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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 



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THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR 
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To the Board of Trustees of 

The Leland Stanford Junior University: 
Gentlemen: The time has arrived when I should take 
steps to put in the form of an address to you certain additions 
to and changes in my directions heretofore made, which I 
deem necessary respecting the management of the University 
and its properties. These changes while I live and have 
charge can be attended to and not be questioned; but when 
the management of the institution devolves upon you, I do 
not wish any doubts to arise as to my intentions, and hence 
take this occasion to make my views clear. 

The Trustees being organized as a Board, with the assent 
of the Surviving Founder, and under and in accordance with 
the State Constitution and special act of the Legislature, all 
directions heretofore made by me as to the appointment, 
powers, and duties of its officers and of an executive and 
finance committee are withdrawn, and in lieu thereof the 
Board is directed to adopt by-laws providing for its officers 
and necessary committees and specifying their powers and 
duties. 

The directions heretofore made requiring the Board of 
Trustees to maintain the stables upon the Palo Alto Farm 
and to maintain the vineyard at Vina, are withdrawn. As 
long as the vineyard at Vina produces a reasonable income, 
I recommend its maintenance. 

I have erected the Church, Assembly Hall and Chemical 
Laboratory referred to in my former directions. I therefore 
withdraw all directions concerning their location or erection. 

No rule or direction heretofore made shall prevent the 
application of the endowment funds of the University towards 
the improvement of any real estate now or hereafter held in 
trust for the University. 



All property, real and personal, held in trust for the main- 
tenance of the Leland Stanford Junior University, except the 
Palo Alto Farm and my San Francisco Residence, may be 
sold and conveyed and the proceeds thereof invested for the 
benefit of the University. 

The concurrence of a majority (eight) of the Board of 
Trustees shall be necessary and sufficient for the sale of prop- 
erty, for the investment of funds, or for the transaction of 
any other business, irrespective of whether or not they, or 
any of them, shall be officers of said board or members of any 
committee thereof. 

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior 
University, as such, or in the name of the institution, or by 
other intelligible designation of the trustees or of the institu- 
tion may receive property, real or personal, and wherever 
situated, by gift, grant, devise, or bequest, for the benefit of 
the institution, or of any department thereof, and such prop- 
erty, unless otherwise provided, shall be held by the Trustees 
of the Leland Stanford Junior University upon the trusts 
provided for in the grant founding the University, and amend- 
ments thereof, and grants, bequests, and devises supplement- 
ary thereto, within the meaning of Article IX, Section 10, of 
the Constitution of the State of California. 

Any directions heretofore made by me inconsistent with 
any of the provisions of Subdivisions 9, 10 and 11 of Article 
IV of the Founding Grant are withdrawn. The Board of 
Trustees should adopt such a plan for the nomination and 
appointment of professors and teachers, and the determina- 
tion of their salaries, as experience of this and similar 
institutions may prove to be desirable. During my adminis- 
tration the President of the University shall continue to have 
the exclusive control over the appointment and dismissal of 
professors and teachers, as he has had heretofore. 



The Board of Trustees should always avail itself of the 
knowledge and experience of the President of the University, 
who, by reason of the high and disinterested position which 
he holds, will be found to be a safe counsellor in all matters 
of University administration and in all differences and con- 
flicting claims within and between departments. 

No direction heretofore made by me shall prevent the 
continuance of regular or special University instruction in 
any and all of the University departments throughout the 
summer months, provided the same is authorized by the 
Board of Trustees and under the exclusive control of the 
University authorities. 

In so far as necessary, or the nature of the case requires, 
instruction and investigation, together with suitable facilities 
therefor, may be maintained elsewhere than upon the Palo 
Alto Farm. * 

No direction or request heretofore made by me shall 
prohibit the maintenance of such elementary and other 
schools upon the Palo Alto Farm as may be found necessary 
to experimental instruction in the department of Education 
of the University. 

The Board of Trustees shall determine whether or not any 
charge for tuition, or registration fee, shall be levied in any 
department of the University, and the amount of such charge 
or fee; and it may exempt residents of California from the 
payment of any such charge or fee. 

The Board of Trustees shall determine the conditions of 
admission to the Museum, including the charge therefor, if 
any; but I believe it to be desirable that an admission fee 
should always be charged to the public. By experience I 
have learned it to be a partial protection to the valuable 
articles within its walls. 



My Palo Alto Residence may be used as a residence for 
the President of the University, or for such other purposes as 
the Board of Trustees may determine, after my wishes are 
carried out as to removing certain articles from therein, to 
be placed in the Museum, which are mentioned in my last 
will and testament, or in an address heretofore made by me 
to the Trustees. The articles not mentioned are to remain 
in the home. 

Boarding and lodging houses may be erected and main- 
tained by private parties and corporations upon the Palo Alto 
Farm, only under express authorization of the Board of 
Trustees, and under its supervision and control. The same 
and all other buildings upon the Palo Alto Farm shall be 
subject to the rules of discipline of the University, and sub- 
ject to the orders and control of the Board of Trustees. 

No additional interments shall be made or permitted in 
the cemetery adjacent to the Mausoleum, and the requirement 
that a cemetery be maintained upon the Palo Alto Farm is 
hereby withdrawn. 

It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees to make 
general laws providing for the government of the University, 
and to provide for just and equitable rules of discipline. 

Inasmuch as it was the paramount purpose of the Found- 
ers of the Leland Stanford Junior University to promote the 
public welfare by founding, endowing and having maintained 
a University with the colleges, schools, seminaries of learning, 
mechanical institutes, museums, galleries of art, and all other 
things necessary and appropriate to a University of high 
degree, all other directions or reservations in the Founding 
Grant and all amendments or attempted amendments thereof 
by the Founders, or by the Survivor of them, shall be deemed 
incidental and subordinate to that paramount purpose, and 



the invalidity of any direction, or attempted amendment, or 
of anything herein contained, shall not affect the validity of 
any conveyances heretofore or hereafter made to the Uni- 
versity, or to the Trustees thereof, or of the directions herein 
or heretofore made, as far as such directions are otherwise 
valid; and if any such directions or attempted amendments 
are found not to be legal or binding, they may, notwithstand- 
ing, be regarded as advisory or permissive so far as they shall 
be capable of execution. 

In my former directions I have placed a minimum upon 
the cost of buildings to be erected upon the Palo Alto Farm. 
Should times and conditions so change in the future that the 
Board of Trustees, in their best judgment, should find that 
such minimum cost no longer bears the same proportion to 
the then condition of affairs that it does now, then they are 
allowed from time to time to change the amount named by. 
me as such minimum cost; but in that case no building shall 
be built by a lessee except under plans first approved by such 
Board of Trustees. 

Contracts have been made for a new and large gymnasium 
with a view to improving the physical condition of the stu- 
dents attending the University, and the college authorities 
should urge them to fully avail themselves of its advantages 
and to lead a hygienic life. In my judgment it is the duty 
of the University authorities to send out into the world stu- 
dents with good physical health as well as with good mental 
attainments, in order that they may successfully fight the 
battle of life. 

Pursuant to the policy of the Founders as outlined in 
the Founding Grant of encouraging advanced instruction 
and original research, it has been determined that a more 
commodious library should be built, capable of affording suit- 
able facilities and accommodations for the increasing number 



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of post graduate students, as well as those receiving under- 
graduate instruction. The inadequacy of the other collec- 
tions of books in this vicinity renders an unusually large 
University library necessary, and the present library building 
can be well used for a law library and other necessary pur- 
poses. The site of such library has been selected and the 
plans of the interior have been approved, and its erection will 
probably be commenced within the coming year. 

The University must be forever maintained upon a 
strictly non-partisan and non-sectarian basis. It must never 
become an instrument in the hands of any political party or 
any religious sect or organization. I believe that the moral 
and religious development of the University will be better 
accomplished if entirely free from all denominational alliances, 
however slight the bond may be. The services in the Mem- 
orial Church must be simple and informal in character, and 
the theological questions, services and observances, upon 
which the sects differ, should not be entered upon, so that 
members of every church may worship and receive instruction 
therein not inconsistent with their individual beliefs. Pro- 
vision has been made whereby all those who love Our Lord 
Jesus Christ may partake of the Sacrament of the Lord's 
Supper at stated intervals in the Memorial Church. Attend- 
ance at religious services shall be entirely optional, and no 
profession of religious faith or belief shall be exacted of any 
one for any purpose. 

I desire that the University shall be forever kept out of 
politics, and that no professor shall electioneer among or 
seek to dominate other professors or the students for the 
success of any political party or candidate in any political 
contest. I hope that every voter, whether professor or stu- 
dent, will always thoroughly inform himself upon every prin- 
ciple involved, and as to the merits of every candidate seeking 
his suffrage, and then vote according to 'his own best judg- 



ment and conscience, irrespective of any importunity of 
others. And in order to freely do this he should noj: be 
subjected to any importunity, since it is possible that cases 
might arise where a mere suggestion might be understood to 
be a covert demand. 

It has been the history of Universities that their professors 
rarely take the public rostrum in political campaigns. The 
very infrequency of their having done so would seem to prove 
that there is some sound reason why they should not. The 
reason, I think, is not far to find. When a professor speaks 
to a public audience, the audience is gathered together, to 
some extent at least, because he is a professor of a university. 
Whether they should do so or not, his hearers consider that 
he appears as a representative of the university of which he 
is a professor, and therefore voices its views and sentiments. 
It is impossible for some members of his audience, and prob- 
ably impossible for most of them, to entirely disassociate the 
man from his position. If they go to hear him because he 
is a professor, they must almost necessarily assume that the 
views and sentiments which he expresses have a general foot- 
hold in his university; whereas such assumption may be very 
far from the actual fact of the case, and the public may thereby 
be greatly deceived. So far as he may represent himself 
only : so far as it is the man and not the professor that speaks 
to public audiences, he should have the fullest possible liberty 
of speech, for he but represents himself and is accountable 
only to himself: but when the circumstances are such that 
he must know that he is being deemed by his hearers, or any 
of them, to be speaking for his university and voicing its 
views, then, unless he knows that he is indeed truly and 
correctly voicing those views, unless he knows that he is not 
deceiving his hearers in that regard, or even if he thinks he is 
correctly stating the views of his university, yet as he has not 
and could not have any authority to speak for it, he should 
keep silent. 



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If the professors of this university believe the above to 
be the true reason why professors of other universities have 
nearly altogether abstained from entering upon the public 
rostrum in the discussion of political and other questions 
upon which public feeling runs high and upon which the 
public is itself divided, then I indulge in the hope that they 
will follow their example. 

The University was not made independent of State con- 
trol because of any purpose of the founders inconsistent with 
its character as a State Institution, but because they believed 
that its purposes could be better and more surely accom- 
plished through a Board of Trustees free from possible polit- 
ical or partisan influence, and independent of all external 
control save that of Courts of Equity. Notwithstanding 
their creation of the University as an independent institution, 
it was the wish and purpose of the Founders that it should 
be kept, as far as practicable, in harmony with the public 
educational system, and that, in the matter of entrance 
requirements as well as in every other relation of the Uni- 
versity with the general public, the University authorities 
should take into consideration the welfare of those who do 
not attend the University as well as those who do, and adopt 
the policy which, in their judgment, is in accord with the 
spirit of the foundation, as above defined. Without neces- 
sarily lowering the standard of regular admission to the Uni- 
versity, concessions may be made in admission upon partial 
or special standing, or otherwise, in favor of students coming 
from high schools which cannot afford to maintain a separate 
course of study for the benefit of the small minority of high 
school students who go to universities, but offer a reasonable 
number of practical studies for the preparation of their stu- 
dents for an immediate entry into the active walks of life. 
So long as the public maintains an efficient high school sys- 
tem, the education given by the University to a student 



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should commence where that given to him by the high 
school ends; and there should be no gap in his necessary 
education between where the high school ends and the Uni- 
versity begins and which omitted part of his education could 
only be supplied by private schools — the latter not being 
generally accessible to the students of limited means. ' The 
University authorities are, however, the sole judges of the 
qualifications of applicants for admission to any department 
of the institution. 

The University has been endowed with a view of offering 
instruction free, or nearly free, that it may resist the tendency 
to the stratification of society, by keeping open an avenue 
whereby the deserving and exceptional may rise through 
their own efforts from the lowest to the highest stations in 
life. A spirit of equality must accordingly be maintained 
within the University. To this end it shall be the duty of the 
University authorities to prohibit excessive expenditures and 
other excesses on the part of students, and the formation or 
growth of any organization, custom or social function that 
tends to the development of exclusive or undemocratic castes 
within the University, and to exclude from the institution 
any one whose conduct is inconsistent with the spirit of the 
foundation. 

While its chief object is the instruction of students with a 
view to producing leaders and educators in every field of 
science and industry, the University was also designed " to 
advance learning, the arts and sciences;" and to this end the 
institution should assist, by experimentation and research, 
in the advancement of useful knowledge and in the dissemina- 
tion and practical application of the same. 

The Founding Grant provides that the Trustees shall 
establish and maintain at the University an educational sys- 



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tern which will, if followed, fit the graduate for some useful 
pursuit, and to this end, cause the pupils, as early as may be, 
to declare the particular calling which they may desire to 
pursue. The purpose of this requirement is not only to assure 
the practical character of the instruction, and to prevent such 
instruction as will not tend directly " to qualify students for 
personal success and direct usefulness in life," but to protect 
the University from the cost of instructing and from the bane- 
ful influence of a class, bound to infest the institution as the 
country grows older, who wish to acquire a University degree 
or fashionable educational veneer for the mere ornamentation 
of idle and purposeless lives. 

The moving spirit of the Founders in the foundation and 
endowment of the Leland Stanford Junior University was 
love of humanity and a desire to render the greatest possible 
service to mankind. The University was accordingly de- 
signed for the betterment of mankind morally, spiritually, 
intellectually, physically and materially. The public at large, 
and not alone the comparatively few students who can attend 
the University, are the chief and ultimate beneficiaries of the 
foundation. While the instruction offered must be such as 
will qualify the students for personal success and direct use- 
fulness in life, they should understand that it is offered in the 
hope and trust that they will become thereby of greater 
service to the public. 

As stated in the letter to the Trustees, accompanying the 
Founding Grant, " The object is not alone to give the Student 
a technical education, fitting him for a successful business life, 
but it is also to instill into his mind an appreciation of the 
blessings of this Government, a reverence for its institutions, 
and a love of God and humanity, to the end that he may go 
forth and by precept and example spread the great truths by 



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the light of which his fellow men will be elevated and taught 
how to obtain happiness in this world, and in the life eternal." 

San Francisco, California, 
October 3d, 1902. 

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JANE LATHROP STANFORD, 
Surviving Founder of 

The Leland Stanford Junior University. 



State of California, 

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City and County of San Francisco. 

On this 3rd day of October, in the year one thousand nine 
hundred and two, before me, FRANK L. OWEN, a Notary 
Public in and for the said City and County, residing therein, 
duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared JANE 
LATHROP STANFORD, known to me to be the person 
whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and 
acknowledged to me that she executed the same. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my 
hand and affixed my official seal, in the City and County of 
San Francisco, the day and year in this certificate first above 
written. 

FRANK L. OWEN, 
Notary Public in and for the City and County of 
San Francisco, State of California. 
[Notarial Seal.] 



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